Right Wing Wisconsin Justice Throws Rocks From Her Glass House
Wisconsin Supreme Kangaroo Court Justice Rebecca Bradley of all people should keep quiet about judicial conduct.
When the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided to accept the first of two cases regarding the gerrymandered districting maps, Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote the dissenting opinion. It would be an understatement to say that her opinion lacked in professionalism, much less maturity. Her opinion read, in part:
REBECCA GRASSL BRADLEY, J. (dissenting). The outcome of this original action has been predetermined. Nevertheless, the majority forces the parties to expend considerable resources—including taxpayer money—to respond to a petition everyone knows will be granted by Ann Walsh Bradley, Rebecca Dallet, Jill Karofsky, and Janet Protasiewicz. Despite receiving nearly $10 million from the Democrat Party of Wisconsin1 and declaring the maps "rigged,"2 Protasiewicz has not recused herself from the case. These four justices will adopt new maps to shift power away from Republicans and bestow an electoral advantage for Democrat candidates, fulfilling one of Protasiewicz's many promises to the principal funder of her campaign.
To understand just how breathtakingly hypocritical this is, we need to look at how Bradley even got to be a Justice in the first place.
In 2012, then Governor Scott Walker appointed Bradley to Circuit Court Branch #45. Before this appointment, she just so happened to coincidentally and in no way connected (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) happened to be President of the Milwaukee Federalist Society and had just so happened to have donated numerous times to Walker's campaign. Remember, this was just a coincidence and had no connection whatsoever.
Yeah, right.
And it just so happened that the timing of Walker appointing Bradley to this bench just so happened to coincidentally be just a few months before the seat was up for election. So, almost overnight, Bradley went from a no name lawyer to being the incumbent running for the seat she was currently in. Oh, and her opponent in that race was - wait for it - Janet Protasiewicz!
While she was running on being a non-partial and nonpartisan judge, she did her fundraising at the very partial and very partisan Republican Party fundraisers: